Scriptable Command Line Mailer with Remote MTA support

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Jason Joines wrote:
>Anyone know of a mailer you can use in shell scripts that will work 
>without a locally installed MTA?

There are several perl modules that permit this.  You can probably also
configure mutt or pine to deliver to remote smtp servers, then use them as
well.  The perl module I would probably user is ``Mail::Internet'' which
has an smtpsend method (requires Net::SMTP).

Bill
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